{"id":314574,"date":"2019-05-24T07:11:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=314574"},"modified":"2019-05-24T07:14:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:14:05","slug":"tyron-woodley-details-lesson-her-learned-from-jon-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tyron-woodley-details-lesson-her-learned-from-jon-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Woodley details lesson he learned from Jon Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley says he has learned a valuable lesson by watching the career of reigning light heavyweight champ Jon Jones \u2014 one MMA&#8217;s most polarizing athletes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about embracing chaos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am best when I\u2019m in chaos,\u201d Tyron Woodley said in a recent appearance on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1131359828792741888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ariel Helwani MMA Show<\/a> (transcript via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tyron-woodley-shares-what-he-learned-from-jon-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> MMA News<\/a>). \u201cAnd I had to come to grips with that. I heard Jon Jones say he didn\u2019t train in between camps. I\u2019m like, damn, I thought I was the only one. It was kind of my hidden secret.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you notice, Jon\u2026not to compare myself to Jon because, in my opinion, he may be the best MMA athlete we\u2019ve ever seen\u2026but Jon has had so much chaos in his life outside the Octagon, but he\u2019s managed to hone in inside the Octagon,&#8221; Tyron Woodley continued. &#8220;And I\u2019ve found that, don\u2019t run from it. Don\u2019t hide from it. God built you a certain way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I say this time and time again, the renaissance man was a man that did a lot of things good but did no things great. But that was his ass; that ain\u2019t me. I won\u2019t sit on gifts. I won\u2019t sit on gifts that God gave me. Because if you sit on them, you bury them, they get taken away,(and) somebody else do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, Tyron Woodley was scheduled to return to the cage opposite a fellow former champion Robbie Lawler in the main event of UFC Minneapolis. Unfortunately, a hand injury nixed his planned comeback. The card will now be headlined by a heavyweight tilt between Junior dos Santos and Francis Ngannou.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, it&#8217;s not clear when or where he&#8217;ll be returning to action, but from the sounds of it, he&#8217;ll be in <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/kevin-lee-provides-optimistic-update-after-loss-to-rda\/\">a good head space<\/a> when he does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 5\/24\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley says he has learned a valuable lesson by watching the career of reigning light heavyweight champ Jon Jones \u2014 one MMA&#8217;s most polarizing athletes. It&#8217;s all about embracing chaos. \u201cI am best when I\u2019m in chaos,\u201d Tyron Woodley said in a recent appearance on\u00a0The Ariel Helwani MMA Show (transcript [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":304240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089,10091,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tyron Woodley details lesson he learned from Jon Jones | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley says he&#039;s learned a valuable lesson from the career of light heavyweight champion Jon Jones.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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